[SIGCIS-Members] Visit to System Source Computer Museum

[Dag Spicer]

Harry Huskey (2013 CHM Fellow) is the link between AMT (Pilot ACE) and both of these later machines.

Dag

> On Dec 9, 2025, at 12:13 PM, Brian E Carpenter via Members <members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
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> There has been one other suggestion: that the Packard-Bell 250 was derived from the G-15, and therefore indirectly from Turing's original ACE design. I've never checked that from a technical perspective.
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> Regards/Ngā mihi
>   Brian Carpenter
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> On 10-Dec-25 06:05, David Grier via Members wrote:
>> Paul
>>     Believe your statement is true. There was a “Bendix Club” that kept one operating in Michigan but i have had no contact with them in a decade or more.
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>> DAG
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>>> On Dec 9, 2025, at 9:27 AM, Ceruzzi, Paul via Members <members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
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>>> I visited this museum last week, where they demonstrated a Bendix G-15 restored to operating condition! The G-15 may have been the only American computer to incorporate the design philosophy of Alan Turing—correct me if I am wrong on that.
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>>> A very impressive museum. https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmuseum.syssrc.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cdspicer%40computerhistory.org%7C4b79900098264535c46908de376044e4%7Cb6a9c12a29ee4c5f8f93f0d7a8e2db2f%7C0%7C0%7C639009083781420739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=bUIdfF3QsO2shV5UvzSY6KC8v%2FWd%2BcZWsq17xPmnQa4%3D&reserved=0<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmuseum.syssrc.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cdspicer%40computerhistory.org%7C4b79900098264535c46908de376044e4%7Cb6a9c12a29ee4c5f8f93f0d7a8e2db2f%7C0%7C0%7C639009083781457266%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=nwNxtGPMFj3SniLaq9aJCYfFEqHjsOTdXXiHE5PFut0%3D&reserved=0>
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Dag Spicer
Senior Curator
Computer History Museum
Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
ACM History Committee
1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View CA  94043

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— Norman Cousins, American journalist (1915-1990).

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